Experiencing God:
Knowing and Doing the Will of God

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Summary of Unit 10

Day 1

• When a church allows God's presence and activity to be expressed, a watching world will be drawn to Him.
• A church is a living body of Christ with many members.
• A church is on mission with Christ in our world carrying out the Father's redemptive purpose.
• God wants His people to be holy and pure.
• God wants His people to display unity.
• God wants His people to love each other.
• No one individual has the total vision for God's will for a local church.
• A church needs to hear the whole counsel of God through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church.
• Sharing what God is doing in my life may help someone else encounter God in a meaningful way.

Day 2

• A church comes to know the will of God when the whole body comes to understand what Christ--the Head--is telling them.
• Every believer has direct access to God.
• Individual opinions are not that important. The will of God is very important.
• A church must learn to function as a body with Christ as the Head of His church.
• A church must wait until God's time.

Day 3

• The Holy Spirit is the Gift.
• The Spirit of God always is present to equip me to carry out a divine assignment.
• A spiritual gift is a manifestation of the Holy Spirit at work in and through a person's life for the common good of the body of Christ.
• The Spirit decides who to give assignments to, and enables spiritual leaders and members to accomplish His work.
• God puts spiritual leaders and members in the body where He wants them to be.
• The body is not complete without all the spiritual leaders and members God has given the body.
• Members of the body should have equal concern for each other.
• Spiritual leaders and members of the body have different assignments from God for the good of the whole body.

Day 4

• Jesus is Head of the body.
• God is very concerned about the body maintaining unity.
• God-like love ought to prevail in the body.
• God decides where I ought to function in the body.
• I understand the will of God for my church when I listen to the whole body express what they are experiencing in the life of that body.
• Each member is precious to God.

Day 5

• Right relationships with God are far more important than buildings, budgets, programs, methods, church personnel, size, or anything else.
• God doesn't add members to the body accidentally.
• God builds the body to match the assignment.
• God builds the body, gives it an assignment, and equips the body to carry out the assignment.
• I will pay close attention to the people God adds to my church.

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